Masks: fetishes and phantasmagorias" exhibition

São Paulo, November 2021 - The Paço das Artes - an institution that belongs to the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of São Paulo - will premiere on November 27 the exhibition "Masks: fetishes and phantasmagorias". Curated by Mirtes Marins de Oliveira, the exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures and installations that encourage reflection around representations of bodies and objects, characters from the history of art, customs and practices of society. A

Visitation will be from Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 7pm, Sundays and holidays from 12pm to 6pm, with free admission. The space follows the protocols of the health authorities to control the pandemic.  

The group exhibition includes works by the artists André Azevedo, Denilson Baniwa, Panmela Castro, Gustavo von Ha, Adão Iturrusgarai, Niobe Xandó, Leonilson, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Luisa Paraguai, Letícia Parente, Gretta Sarfaty, Antony Gormley, Martha Araújo, Efigênia Rolim, Gustavo Torrezan and Leonilson. Organized around intersecting and overlapping axes, the works dialogue with symbols and aim to disorganize, deconstruct and question the representations and purpose of objects from the 

everyday life. The exhibition also presents the concepts of masks, fetishes and phantasmagoria throughout history.  

Exhibition highlights  

Among the highlights is the autobiographical short film "Penumbra" by Panmela Castro. The visual artist, activist, graffiti artist and performer recorded in this work lonely nights in her studio during the 2020 quarantine, presenting the unfolding of a serious social problem: racism. 

In the performance "Pajé Onça" the visual artist and communicator of the Amazonian Indigenous Movement, Denilson Baniwa, reveals the connection of our universe with other worlds (of the animals, plants and the invisible), guided by Pajé Maliri, the strongest and most knowledgeable member of the Baniwa people. 

The painter, multimedia artist with a focus on photography and performance, Gretta Sarfaty presents the series "Self-Photos I, II and III". The artist seeks to question the representation of the body as a place of transformation and passage, in addition to addressing issues of certain visual regimes. 

Cartoonist, humorist, writer and visual artist, Adão Iturrusgarai, is part of the exhibition with the series Fetiche (Cars). The paintings show vehicles and machines, emblems of strength, speed and empowerment, which merge with human bodies and characteristics. 

Also worthy of mention is the installation "Cast Iron" in which Antony Gormley represents a triple fascination and turning point on bodies in the history of Western art, the connection with philosophical meditations on planetary futures and that of his insertion in the world circuit. The same occurs with the artist Leonilson, whose affective and existential work, marked by the generational tragedy of HIV, materializes the desire for transcendence of mundane time through symbols extracted from Catholic iconography. 

The artist, researcher and educator Gustavo Torrezan exhibits the sculpture "Bandeirante". The work associates two moments in history: the recent patriotic demonstrations that have taken place since the second mandate of the first elected president, whose protesters wear the yellow jersey of the football team, with the bandeirantism, when colonizers used horses to ravage the native peoples.  

SERVICE 

Exhibition "Masks: fetishes and phantasmagorias" by Mirtes Marins de Oliveira From 27/11/21 to 13/03/22

Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 7pm, Sundays and public holidays from 12pm to 6pm 

Rua Albuquerque Lins, 1331 - Higienópolis, São Paulo/SP 

Free